From a series of photographs gathered by Langston Hughes of the Club Atenas in Havana, Cuba, 1931.
[More photos can be found in the Beinecke Digital Image database (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/). Search for the keywords "hughes cuba".
[These calm, enigmatic scenes are also perfect to mark the one year anniversary of the launch of Room 26 - showing the type of curious intriguingly and beautiful material we look for in our collections.]

Images of flowers, from a set of lantern slides that accompanied the lecture, "My Life Among the Indians" given in 1941 by Walter McClintock. For more slides, search the Beinecke Digital Images database (http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/dl_crosscollex/) for the keywords “WA MSS S-1175 lantern”
linnea borealis